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21 deportees arrive from US; to be monitored
At least 21 Guyanese deportees arrived from the United States (US) Tuesday afternoon, after serving jail terms for various offences....
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UPDATED: Bandits invade Finance Ministry compound, grab GYD$3M, shoot supervisor
A 29 year old male supervisor was Tuesday afternoon nursing a gunshot wound to his right thigh, having been robbed and...
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Gov’t MPs should take lie-detector test on ‘national disaster’ budget, says PPP MP Dharamlall
Opposition parliamentarian Nigel Dharamlall is convinced government parliamentarians are not as honest about their feelings toward budget 2017 as they...
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14% VAT on condoms is a tax on safe sex- Opposition MP Dr. Frank Anthony
Opposition MP and former Culture, Youth and Sport Minister, Dr Frank Anthony had the National Assembly in an uproar this...
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New counselling rooms for 10 secondary schools; new medical school for UG- Education Minister
With 17% of $250B in budget 2017 allocated to the education sector, Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine announced in the...
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Updated: No foreign exchange shortage, although sister Caricom buyers are taking out US dollars
Finance Minister, Winston Jordan and Governor of the Bank of Guyana, Dr. Gobind Ganga speaking on the balcony of Parliament...
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Education budget reduced by $1B because of 14% VAT; cost of living will increase- MP Manickchand warns
Shadow Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand contributing to the 2017 Budget Debate in the National Assembly "Shocking", "unconscionable", were the...
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Mining activity not linked to death of Region 7 boy, brain-dead brother – Minister Norton
The death of A 9-year-old boy from the Kako village in Region 7 and the brain-dead state of his 11...
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Jealous Guyanese man almost saws off wife’s head in Queens, New York
Police at the scene where a woman was found nearly decapitated at the corner of 124th Street and 103rd Avenue...
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‘Poisonous’ budget will cause ‘sufferation’, ‘murderation’ to Guyanese- Opposition MP
The heated exchanges in budget 2017 debates have already started with Opposition MP Joseph Hamilton taking to the floor to...
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